Jun. 15th, 2018

epeolatry

Jun. 15th, 2018 07:44 am
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epeolatry (ep-i-OL-uh-tree) - n., worship of words.


Not that there's any of THAT going on around here. Nope. Coined in 1860 by Oliver Wendell Holmes in Professor at the Breakfast Table from Greek roots épos, word + -latry, from latreia, worship, on the model of idolatry.

---L.

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